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What is Scientology?

Scientology is a dangerous, mindbending cult that was
established in the 1950's by
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and presents a grave threat to the
concepts and tenets of freedom and democracy. Scientology has,
as its basic purpose, the destruction of freedom and the erosion
of human rights on the way to
making money; it uses any means possible to achieve this
end, including legal harassment, verbal and
physical threats, hiding
under the cover of "religion", and thought reform so complete
that to talk to anyone brainwashed by the cult is to talk to
little more than the mouthed platitudes of mechanical zombies.

Scientology has evolved its own language that is little more
than meaningless, incomprehensible ravings to rational, educated
minds. This newspeak is a form of semantic control, used by the
church to extract profit, either in money or personnel resources
from its hapless,
brainwashed victims and to serve PR functions to fool the
public. Scientology is a totalitarian and fascist system that
sees freedom of speech as an arch enemy, and freedom of thought
as a personal attack, deserving of every means to stop it dead,
sometimes literally. An example of this newspeak is the
unfounded claim by the cult to be a "church"; Scientology is a
cult, not a church.

Based on science fiction and fantasy, the cult's teachings
are little more than a thinly concealed attempt at making huge
sums of money for the people at the top of the cult. Near the
end of his life, Ronald Hubbard was reported to be making as
much as one million dollars per week. Hubbard is documented as
having said that the
best way to make a lot of money is to invent a religion, and
that is exactly what he did with the cult of Scientology.

A mainstay of the cult's writings are based upon a kind of
pseudo-science that gives one the clear impression that it is
the 1930's. Many of these writings talk down to their audience
as if they were wholly ignorant of basic facts about geology,
biology, medicine, and other branches of general knowledge and
science. The lamentable truth is that the cult's brainwashed
victims are actually willing to defend these bits of fantasy as
established scientific fact, against all reason and logic; one
such delusion is "auditing".

In "auditing", Scientology charges huge amounts of money to
hook the indoctrinees up to a crude resistor-based bridge
ohmmeter and ask bizarre questions about what supposedly
happened to them millions, billions or even trillions of years
ago on this and other planets. This "treatment" (also called
"metering" by the cult) is supposed to cure all manner of
ailments, both physical and psychological, for astronomical
prices. The total cost of going from "raw meat", as the cult
disparagingly calls the public, to "OT-8" is estimated to cost
over 250,000.00$ US. The cult also uses another form of this
"auditing" process, called "security-checking"
to obtain very personal information about the follower's sex
lives and criminal history (if any), which is then used for
security purposes as
potential blackmail to keep people quiet about the illegal
activities of the cult should they ever escape its semantic
entrapment long enough to resume their former lives.

The litigious nature of the controversial cult of Scientology
is well known and reported in the literature on this dangerous
cultic phenomenon. Scientologists have, as one of their basic
policies, the destruction of anyone who is perceived by this
paranoid schizophrenic organization as being an "enemy", and
baseless lawsuits, sometimes involving frames, are used for this
purpose. An enemy is anyone who, in the eyes of the cult,
denigrates the cult in any way; thus critics are subject to
multitudes of frivolous lawsuits, threats, strong-arm tactics,
and outright physical attacks. For this reason, suggestions have
been put forward to ban Scientology from the courts for
barratrous abuses.

Scientology, while trying desperately to maintain a PR facade
of sweetness and light, in reality call their public by such
derogatory names as "raw meat", "bodies", and "WOGs"; these same
people are thought to be so inconsequential to the cult that
they are "body routed" into the organization, as they are
thought to have no self determination or free will whatsoever,
and thus no rights. The "raw meat" are fit for little more than
indoctrination using simple hand motions like the children's
game of pat-a-cake, according to the cult, as they are too far
down the cult's "tone scale", a list of all the emotional states
a person is capable of, to be treated as human beings.
Interestingly, this "tone scale" of all human states and
emotions fails to contain either happiness or freedom — the
stated goals of Hubbard's so-called "religion".

The charade of hiding behind a religious cover even goes as
far as installing pews and an altar in most of its buildings;
however, these are seldom actually used until an investigation
by a taxation branch brings down the order from above to "make
this place look churchy" by using the pews and dressing up a
cult indoctrinator as a "minister". Pretending to be a religion
serves two purposes within the cult; escaping the charge of
medical malpractice and avoiding legitimate taxation within the
host country the cult has infiltrated. The hope for the future
is that more countries will stand up to this tactic with
protective legislation.

Scientology hides behind the facade of a "religion", yet to
the cult indoctrinees and those "in the know", this is merely
seen as a way to avoid taxation and hassles over using the
"auditing" techniques for
stated medical purposes. The medical community has long been
trying to curtail this cult's dangerous pseudo-medical
practices, such as the "purification
rundown" and the use of the "e-meter" for healing everything
from backaches to bad eyesight. For this reason, the cult
perceives a need to hide under the cover of religion, while at
the same time calling itself a "science of mind" to gain
credence on the the coattails of legitimate medicine. In
addition, the cult has a policy of discrediting, attacking, and
suing the medical and psychiatric communities, as they were
perceived as enemies by the paranoid Hubbard; he was at one time
diagnosed as being mentally unstable by a psychiatrist, and thus
he conceived a hatred for the healing professions.

Although the cult of Scientology often makes irrational and
unscientific claims for medical treatment and healing, the
reality is that these "effects" can all be easily explained by
the placebo effect and by the crushing effects of complete
thought reform, sleep deprivation, dietary control, semantic
disturbances, and milieu control exacted by the cult on its
victims. These brainwashing techniques lead the victim to
"attest" to all forms of miraculous "cures"; if written
"attests" are not made, then the poor "preclear" is sent off to
"ethics" — an action that every Scientologist fears.
In fact, Scientology has a specific policy on people who do not
"improve". They are seen as being evil,
suppressive, or a source of
trouble; thus if the cult's efforts fail, the "preclear" is held
entirely responsible in a kind of catch-22 situation, and made
even more of a victim.

There are two faces to Scientology; one for public
consumption, and an entirely different one, hidden from public
view, for those "in the know". The public is told that Hubbard
is "just a human", and that the cult does not treat of religion;
but the fact is that Hubbard is known to be God once one has
been brainwashed into the "upper levels". The public is given a
PR story that the cult is a "religion", all the teaching are
"belief", and all gains are "spiritual" in nature. Nevertheless,
the indoctrinated know, or rather are brainwashed into
believing, that Scientology is a workable method for treating
human ailments, both medical and psychiatric, and every word of
Hubbard's science-fictionlike scribblings, no matter how
ludicrous, are "scientifically proven facts" referred to as
"source" or, more significantly, "Source", and thoroughly
researched. This "research" in fact involved Hubbard sitting
down at a typewriter and writing whatever came to mind, a skill
he developed while writing pulp science fiction.

Scientology is well known for publishing various "codes" and
"creeds" of a lofty and humanitarian nature, but the cult does
not adhere to these altruistic statements in the smallest
degree; they are just more PR material to make the cult look
good in the eyes of a sceptical and increasingly hostile public.

As time goes on, and more people lose their children,
relatives, and friends to this dangerous, lawless, immoral, and
litigious cult, legislation will surely be enacted in the free
democratic countries of the world to limit its pernicious effect
upon our society. Every time a brainwashed cultist wakes up to
wonder what happened to the last few years of his or her life,
and steps out of the shadows into the bracing sunlight of
freedom of speech and thought, another nail is hammered into the
coffin of this ugly phenomenon. The Scientology cult itself
admits this; it says it has a problem with its "field" (the
public) being "muddy" (hard to expand into). One can only hope
that as time goes by, the cult will grow more distant from the
paranoid and schizophrenic man who created it; already the cult
has gone through its reformation, of sorts, as slightly more
liberal minded groups have split off from the cult and set up
their own operations.

Former members of this cult are requested to speak out
against it; tell the world the dark secrets of the "SO" and the
"RPF". The SO is the Sea Org;
a heavily controlled slave-like segment of the cult that signs
billion year service contracts for wages lower than the average
income of third-world countries. The RPF is the deceptively
named Rehabilitation Project
Force, a dark, secret, and hidden section of the cult used
for punishing "downstat"
members. Every recruit is irrationally expected to increase
their production every week or they become "downstat", having
falling statistics for
production. The RPF is similar to a concentration camp; some of
the unfortunate wights who end up here do not see the light of
day for years. The RPFers for the Los Angeles Cedars of Lebanon
Centre are imprisoned in cavern-like tunnels extending under the
streets of Los Angeles, fed on a starvation diet of beans and
rice, forced to work up to 125 hours a week, are not allowed to
speak, and are dressed in filthy grey rags. There is an even
darker and more secret organization for punishing "downstat"
members called the "RRPF",
or Ron's RPF; if anyone out there has experiences to relate of
this cruel section of the cult, they are encouraged to speak out
against this flagrant abuse of basic human rights.

If you, the gentle reader have information of torture,
inhumane treatment, murder, or other nefarious behavior or human
rights abuses by this cult, then let the world know — don't
let what happened to you or people who were in the cult with you
happen to another person out of ignorance of just how evil this
cult really is. Fear not reprisals; people who have escaped the
cult number in the hundreds of thousands! It has been estimated
that there are several times more "disaffected" Scientologists
than there are people trapped in the cult at present.

The author of this FAQ shall, in all likelihood, be attacked
by the cult for writing this, but this tactic will not serve.
For the author believes so strongly in the truth that nothing
shall swerve him from this path. In this world, we must fight
for what we believe in; for if we turn a blind eye to the
dictator or to those who would limit our freedoms, then we shall
be forever on the retreat, and we shall end up having a life not
worth living. Let this be a call to arms, "for we have nothing
to fear but fear itself".